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What are Swedish Gripen fighter jets doing in Iceland?
Iceland lacks a standing army, navy, or air force—relying instead on NATO to defend it, including the alliance’s newest ...
It’s not the first time the new NATO member’s fighter jets were deployed to the nation. The F/A-18 Hornet was developed as an all-weather supersonic multirole fighter in the 1970s for the U.S. Navy ...
The Swedish Air Force (SwAF) has assumed the leadership role for NATO's air policing mission in Iceland for the first time.
Belgium has taken over the mission of patrolling airspace around fellow NATO member Iceland, dispatching Lockheed Martin F-16As to the island nation. Without an air force but strategically located ...
Braced against cutting winds slicing through the Keflavík air base, one of the U.K.'s most advanced stealth fighter jets sits on the tarmac, having just arrived in Iceland. Huddled meters away from ...
Sweden has deployed six JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft to Iceland in its first leadership of the NATO Icelandic Air Policing mission since joining the Alliance.
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